Author of The Mystery Fighter series
The Mystery Fighter
After she tragically loses her mother, Cassie turns to street fighting-but she soon learns that the biggest fights happen outside the ring.
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Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Haynes has never been one to follow the rules. Constantly on the brink of expulsion at school, she doesn't care what anyone thinks about her. But when tragedy strikes and she is left alone to care for her little sister, Cassie needs to find a way to survive and quick. Without telling a single soul, she moves to the next city over and turns to the only thing she knows--the illegal sport of street fighting. As her fights get grittier and more dangerous, Cassie finds out that there are even more people out for her blood. She'll do anything to protect her little sister and some people are about to learn the hard way.
The Mystery Fighter II
With her deadly secret out in the open, Cassie must fight even harder to protect not only her sister but her own heart.
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Cassie has never been in a tighter spot. In an unexpectedly grim fight, Julian, her annoying yet charming tutee, uncovers her deadly secret! With the threat of homelessness pressing down on her, she has no choice but to move in with him to keep her and her sister safe. But when the past continues to catch up with her, rival gangs ramp up their challenges, out for her head. And as Julian's family's dark past comes to haunt Cassie, a mysterious stranger's return could challenge everything she has built to protect.
The Mystery Fighter III
After getting into college, Cassie has no intentions of going back to her old habit of street fighting- but as the streets of her hometown would have it, her combat days are far from over.
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After her first year of college, Cassie returns to Goldhaven to reunite with her sister and new romance, Zayden, for the summer. Though Zayden claims that he has left his violent lifestyle in the past, Cassie soon suspects that he is slowly being tugged back to his old crew when tensions arise between ambitious gangs in Range Lake. And when an additional friend gets caught up in trouble with some shady debt collectors on the wrong side of town, Cassie decides to rise to the occasion in the most subtle way possible; by infiltrating the ranks of the enemies.
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Patterns of Betrayal
Abandoned as a child.
Raised by loan sharks.
And eventually shunned by her mentor.
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Underground debt-collector, Alene, finds herself being pushed out of the familiar world of schemes and illegal trade deals, and thrown into a world unknown to her: the world outside the confined walls of her Mother's lawless hierarchy. Left to fend for herself, Alene must ultimately face her inner demons on her journey from a corrupt past and exploited childhood. And she must confront her biggest challenge yet: the real world.
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Blessing in Disguise
When moving to the big city for university, Valerie didn't expect to get robbed on her first day in her new apartment.
She also didn't expect the robber to be her new classmate.
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Valerie thought getting a scholarship to pay for her tuition would be her biggest hurdle after the summer. However, discovering that the guy that robbed her a couple of days ago goes to her school, was an inconvenience that certainly didn't make her life easier.
What's more, his obsession with her apartment was... troubling, to say the least.
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*Ongoing*